al relationship to the appreciation of beauty. Emerson also reiterates his transcendental views by writing how a presence of a higher spiritual element is essential to the perfect beauty found in nature. In the fourth chapter of Nature Emerson attempts to explain how language has its roots in nature. He writes how nature is a vehicle of thought and how words are merely sign of natural facts. Emerson believes that language of natural history is to give us some help in understanding our super-natural history. He writes, “Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.” “This is apparent in his transcendental views and the way he writes about nature. Emerson once wrote “All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.” (615) He believed that science was looking in the right place and that the church was preaching ignorance and hiding behind the bible. This was the reason for Emerson to say about himself, ”To be a good minister it was necessary to leave the ministry.”(612) Emerson thought he and science were on the right path to finding God in nature. ...
